Bicutan Automated Guideway Transit System

Bicutan Automated Guideway Transit System

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Bicutan AGT System
Overview
Type Automated Guideway Transit (AGT)
Status Under construction
Locale Philippines Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
Services Taguig C-6 (planned)
Technical
Track length 465 meters (1,526 ft) (test track)
6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) (planned)[1]
Number of tracks 1
Operating speed 50–60 kilometers per hour (31–37 mph) (planned)

The Bicutan AGT is an automated guideway transit (AGT) system under construction and development as of 2011 within the City of Taguig the Philippines. It will serve as test track for the second mass transit system to be built and developed in the country by local engineers.

Despite some media reports calling it a monorail, the system uses two parallel concrete beams to form a track.

References

  1. Regidor, Anna Kristine. "UPD monorail project begins". 2011-07-27. University of the Philippines Diliman. Archived from the original on 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
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